Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
tests.
diff --git a/Lib/test/data/README b/Lib/test/data/README
index 8bf8c9b..bd05984 100644
--- a/Lib/test/data/README
+++ b/Lib/test/data/README
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
This empty directory serves as destination for temporary files
-created by some tests.
+created by some tests, in particular, the test_codecmaps_* tests.
diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index ea08165..c2b1a11 100644
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@
XMLLIBSUBDIRS= xml xml/dom xml/etree xml/parsers xml/sax
LIBSUBDIRS= tkinter tkinter/test tkinter/test/test_tkinter \
tkinter/test/test_ttk site-packages test \
- test/capath \
+ test/capath test/data \
test/cjkencodings test/decimaltestdata test/xmltestdata \
test/subprocessdata \
test/tracedmodules test/encoded_modules \
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ddda39f..d4c9258 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -981,7 +981,10 @@
Tests
-----
-- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
+- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
+ tests.
+
+- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
testcase failure in test_ssl.
- Issue #12469: Run wakeup and pending signal tests in a subprocess to run the